No Random Skins in WB7 » Forum Post by Jeff George

Did you hit apply changes

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DaveBax

Join Date 10/2007

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As LeeDee said, you can hightliaht any skin in windowblinds and click apply changes on the top left. OR you can just double any windowblind you want that is showing in windowblinds and it will automatically install on your system.

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It's not so much a problem as being able to apply the skins that come with the app; it's being able to get them to change randomly on logging in to Windows. However, I did some more experimenting and may have found a solution. I changed the skin to something other than Windows Classic and restarted. At that point, the skins started being randomly applied whenever I logged in. But if I manually set the skin back to Windows Classic the randomization stops. It seems that my system doesn't like applying a random skin if I set it to Windows Classic for some reason. No big deal since I don't really care for that skin any way.

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Quoting Jeff George,

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I don't really care for that skin any way.

Me either.

I Set the star filter for Windows Classic to 1 in the skins list and set the list to filter by 2 or more stars. This hides Classic in the skins list when selecting a WB.

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Uvah

Join Date 05/2006

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Quoting Wizard1956,

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I Set the star filter for Windows Classic to 1 in the skins list and set the list to filter by 2 or more stars. This hides Classic in the skins list when selecting a WB.

Very interesting.

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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Quoting Jeff George,

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It's not so much a problem as being able to apply the skins that come with the app; it's being able to get them to change randomly on logging in to Windows. However, I did some more experimenting and may have found a solution. I changed the skin to something other than Windows Classic and restarted. At that point, the skins started being randomly applied whenever I logged in. But if I manually set the skin back to Windows Classic the randomization stops. It seems that my system doesn't like applying a random skin if I set it to Windows Classic for some reason. No big deal since I don't really care for that skin any way.

Ahh. Random only applies if you have a UIS2 / Per pixel skin applied to your system. Perhaps we should make that more clear in future.

Classic / Aero are listed as options to disable WindowBlinds or you get questions on how to turn WindowBlinds offf.

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What the heck is meant by UIS2/Per pixel skin and how, specifically, does that relate to random? Are you saying that only skins that meet that criteria are considered during randomization? When I look at my skins library it says "UIS0 Skin - Random Skin mode is met." What does that mean?

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